/humanize-bytes

Command-line utilities to convert "MiB" etc to raw numbers, and back

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humanize-bytes -- Utilities to convert "MiB" etc to raw numbers

Install with

go get github.com/tv42/humanize-bytes/cmd/bytes2human github.com/tv42/humanize-bytes/cmd/human2bytes

Use like this:

$ human2bytes 42GiB
45097156608

$ human2bytes 42GB
42000000000

For example, sort your du, but still get readable results:

$ du -b * | sort -nr | head -5 | bytes2human